On Friday 06 August 2010 15:59:03 David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/06/2010 12:00 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
In nearly all my other desktops (fluxbox, e16, e17, icewm, etc..) I have
always started the gnome-settings-daemon independently as one of the startup programs for each of the desktops. It provides the gnome-screensaver and makes all the gtk apps look right.
To my surprise, you can't do that anymore in 11.3 -- Why Not??
Why is it my questions that only have a 50/50 chance of receiving any type of answer? I ask nicely and I try to provide enough concise descriptive information to allow an answer, but alas, many just remain on the list as single question posts..... Bummer :-(
Because you do strange things with your desktops, then you ask hard questions ;-). I'd have asked a question like this on the -gnome list, they can probably tell you if g-s-d has some other runtime dependency that is new in 11.3. I'd also explain "can't do that any more" in more detail.
Does anybody else use gnome-settings-daemon in this manner? If so, is it working for you in 11.3?
FWIW I've used g-s-d to get correct icons in nm-applet when working on knetworkmanager in the past, but hadn't tried it on 11.3 until you asked. Sure enough there is no app called gnome-settings-daemon in $PATH when the eponymous package is installed. Looking at the RPM file list, 2 things stand out: an executable in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon and a service definition in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.service This tells me that g-s-d is now a DBUS service that is started on demand. Sure enough, # qdbus org.gnome.SettingsDaemon / /org /org/gnome /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon showing that trying to access the daemon causes it to start. So the question for the gnome list is, "why don't my apps that need g-s-d cause it to autostart?" HTH Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org